Woman Leads Prayer at Mormon Event

By

Geoffrey A. Fowler

Updated April 8, 2013 3:20 p.m. ET

For the first time anyone can remember, the person leading millions of Mormon faithful in a prayer at an important church conference was a woman.

Sister Jean A. Stevens offered a benediction Saturday at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' semiannual General Conference in Salt Lake City, a two-day meeting broadcast around the world. The move coincided with increasingly vocal demands by some members of the fourth-largest...